Market Data Engineer

TP ICAP operates at the heart of the world’s financial, energy and commodities markets.

We are professional intermediaries playing a pivotal role in the world’s financial markets, covering FX, Rates, Credit, Equities, Energy & Commodities.

Globally, we are a leading provider of market participants, with execution via a range of regulated venues, covering a full spectrum of over-the-counter (OTC) asset classes. Matching buyers and sellers, we facilitate the development of liquidity and price discovery in these markets and provide insight and context to our clients. We operate a hybrid model where brokers provide business-critical intelligence to clients. It’s supplemented by proprietary screens for historical data, analytics and execution functionality.

Our clients include banks, insurance companies, pension and hedge funds, asset managers, energy producers and refiners, as well as risk and compliance managers and charities.

We are known in the market for our Honesty, Integrity and Excellence in the provision of service to our clients. Above all else, we Respect our clients and each other, without bias. Employees are expected to uphold the values and principles of our cultural framework in performance of their job duties.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a skilled Market Data Engineer to join our team and play a key role in managing and optimizing financial real-time market data systems. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in market data feeds, and experience working with financial exchanges and vendors. This role requires expertise in software development, data engineering, and infrastructure to ensure seamless data distribution and availability.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensuring optimal accuracy and timeliness of Data on a real-time basis while implementing monitoring tools to detect data issues.
• Collaborating closely with internal teams and business units to support market data needs.
• Integrate, normalize, and distribute market data from various internal financial trading systems and third-party providers.
• Optimize data processing pipelines to ensure low-latency and high-throughput performance.
• Monitor and troubleshoot market data issues, ensuring data integrity and system reliability.
• Support and maintain customer real-time market data feeds.
• Support and maintain real-time market data feeds to vendors and exchanges.
• Implement enhancements to market data infrastructure to improve efficiency and scalability.
• Automate data ingestion, processing, and monitoring using scripting and software development best practices.
• Ensure compliance with exchange policies, licensing agreements, and regulatory requirements.
• Conduct capacity planning and performance tuning for market data applications.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of data sources, system architecture, and processes.
• Flexibility to stretch and take challenges.
• Communication & Interpersonal skills, a team player.
• Attitude to learn and execute.
• Role requires individual to work on weekends or public holidays to support or deploy solutions.
• Resilient under pressure, have a mind-set of continuous improvement and can-do desire to provide excellent service.
• Proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, performance bottlenecks, etc.

Qualifications & Skills Required

• Experience: 3+ years of experience in market data support/engineering or data infrastructure roles.
• Experience of market-data platforms i.e. Refinitiv RTDS (preferred), Bloomberg, direct feed providers, cloud technology such as AWS, GCP. Basic networking/connectivity skills (e.g. Multicast, routing, TCP/IP working knowledge).
• Proficient with OS and network level tuning and editing scripts on Windows/Linux platforms.
• Scripting experience (Python, Perl, Linux bash or tcl).
• Ability to conduct self-learning, pick up new tools and be independent with minimal guidance from the project leads/managers.

Person Specification

Knowledge

• Degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent.
• Good to have: Financial markets/trading business knowledge with exposure to market data products eg. Refinitiv (TREP), Refinitiv Workspace, jpassoc subscriber and compositor, contex, cityvision excelerator, Geneos, BPIPE, MPF experience with large scale/high frequency/low latency distributed applications.
• Understands ideas and has a viewpoint on the markets and economy.
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders outside of the immediate department ‘to get the job done’.
• A thorough knowledge of at least 1 of the following must be demonstrated:
• TREP.
• FIX protocol as used for Market Data.
• Knowledge of market Data Terminals such as EIKON or Bloomberg a distinct advantage.
• Basic knowledge of Excel using Real-Time data should be shown.

Skills

Technical Skills

• Knowledge of market data providers (Bloomberg, Reuters, ICE, CME, etc.).
• Knowledge of RTDS/RTC/RMDS market data platforms.
• Familiarity with database technologies (SQL, NoSQL, Timeseries DBs).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Understanding of network protocols, latency optimization, and data serialization formats.
• Experience in programming languages such as Python, Bash, CloudFormation or Terraform.
• Linux Administration.
• Communicates effectively and efficiently to internal and external stakeholders.
• Build relationships and networks with both internally and externally wherever possible.
• Demonstrates strong customer focus.
• Demonstrates ability to work effectively with others.
• Constructively handles disagreements to reach a resolution.
• Ability to work with diverse groups/personalities.

Client Focused

• Personable and engaging.
• Communicates effectively and efficiently to internal and external stakeholders.
• Build relationships and networks with both internally and externally wherever possible.
• Demonstrates strong customer focus.
• Demonstrates ability to work effectively with others.
• Constructively handles disagreements to reach a resolution.
• Ability to work with diverse groups/personalities.

Innovative

• Open to innovative ideas/experiences and ability to create new ideas, approaches or insights.
• Seeks opportunities for improvements.
• Handles situations and problems with innovation and creativity.

Dynamic & Competitive

• Demonstrates high levels of energy in seeking out and achieving new goals.
• Goes that “extra mile”.

Location

Philippines - A.T. Yuchengco Centre - Taguig City